Re: [lopsa-discuss] Recommendations for File Sharing Systems

2009-10-08 Thread Stefan
Have you looked at: http://www.rejetto.com/hfs/ ? It also works under wine... ***Stefan Mititelu http://twitter.com/netfortius http://www.linkedin.com/in/netfortius On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Tracy Reed wrote: > On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 01:34:43PM -0700, Atom Powers spake thusly: > > WebDA

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Application Whitelisting

2009-10-08 Thread Joseph Kern
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 12:48 AM, wrote: > On Wed, 7 Oct 2009, Joseph Kern wrote: > >> Does anyone have experience with using application whitelisting on >> user workstations? This would be used instead of anti-virus. > > the problem with doing this _instead_ of AV is that many vunerabilities come

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Application Whitelisting

2009-10-08 Thread Joseph Kern
Great questions. On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 11:42 PM, wrote: > At what level do you intend to limit things? > Java/Javascript can be rather deadly malware piece as well. > They also tend to be at the heart of many web applications. > How are you going to maintain the whitelist?  Is it a checksum > o

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Recommendations for File Sharing Systems

2009-10-08 Thread Atom Powers
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 5:44 PM, Phil Pennock wrote: > On 2009-10-07 at 13:34 -0700, Atom Powers wrote: >> Some things I've tried that don't work: > >> SFTP - people have trouble working with remote files > > Which SFTP?  Secure FTP, or SSH-based remote file management? They both have the same pro

[lopsa-discuss] Basic inventory management

2009-10-08 Thread Dominic Lepiane
Dear LOPSA Discuss, I manage a relatively small-scale site which includes a couple hundred nodes at the head office and a branch office of about a dozen nodes. We want to get some basic inventory management in place. We're the usual mix of OS platforms (e.g. mostly MS Windows on the desktop and a

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Recommendations for File Sharing Systems

2009-10-08 Thread Doug Hughes
I'm curious if you've considered just appliancizing (tm) the whole deal with little plugin bricks at each location that take most of the headaches away from VPN setup? There are a number of vendors with a number of different brick sizes to meet most bandwidth needs at fairly reasonable costs.

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Basic inventory management

2009-10-08 Thread Hugh Brown
Dominic Lepiane disturbed my sleep to write: > We've got OCS running (http://www.ocsinventory-ng.org/). It's not a > very broad feature-set so if there's some good ways to extend it, it > may work better for us. I've used GLPI (http://www.glpi-project.org/?lang=en) to extend OCS with good results

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Recommendations for File Sharing Systems

2009-10-08 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> They both have the same problem: they required a download->use->upload > > sshfs is a good idea, but are there MS Windows clients? I think you got to face it: The only thing native to windows is CIFS. And the only way to securely put cifs across the internet is to tunnel it. That could be

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Application Whitelisting

2009-10-08 Thread david
On Thu, 8 Oct 2009, Joseph Kern wrote: > On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 12:48 AM, wrote: >> On Wed, 7 Oct 2009, Joseph Kern wrote: >> >>> Does anyone have experience with using application whitelisting on >>> user workstations? This would be used instead of anti-virus. >> >> the problem with doing this